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...full of spuds, dust in my nostrils, body all aching and racked with pain, and it seems to me that I have been picking potatoes in one form or another ever since. The boss man, Mr. Marse, kept telling me that potato picking is a great challenge and a boon to civilization and the manly thing to do and that if I quit working, my life would lose purpose and meaning and I would be unable to bear the shame...
...That?s been a boon for conservative Republicans, who applaud his "straight-talking ways" and have come to count on Helms to carry the ideological banner into battle. Among moderates and liberals of both parties, however, Helms? right-wing, "family values" mantra has alienated many...
...divestiture trend is a boon to the entire EMS industry, but Flextronics is growing the fastest. It has inhaled 39 suppliers and competitors in less than two years, and its $12 billion market capitalization hovers near that of industry leader Solectron, based in Milpitas, Calif. Both, though, face tough competition from Sanmina, which is based in San Jose and which last month agreed to buy rival SCI Systems, in a stock swap worth about $, 4 billion, plus assumption of $1.5 billion in debt...
Racial profiling is a boon to the left because this political identity justifies its demand for power by estimating racism to be high. The more racism, the more power the left demands for social interventions that go beyond simple fairness under the law. Profiling hurts the right because it makes its fairness-under-the-law position on race seem inadequate, less than moral considering the prevalence of racism. The real debate over racial profiling is not about stops and searches on the New Jersey Turnpike. It is about the degree of racism in America and the distribution of power...
...ecstatic anarchy that erupted in Beijing late Friday night, after the International Olympic Committee awarded the city the 2008 Summer Games, was the greatest overnight boon to the Communist Party since the end of the ultraleftist Cultural Revolution a quarter century ago?and the leadership was quick to exploit it. Immediately after the announcement of Beijing's victory, the entire politburo stood before the nation for the live television broadcast of a "mass cultural gathering" that featured pirouetting schoolchildren singing ditties like New Beijing Love, New Olympic Dreams. Then President Jiang Zemin hitched a ride to Tiananmen Square...